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Quotes About Bitterness

That brief encounter was one of my highest peaks of euphoria. It wiped off years of bitterness and misery, outdid the work of myriad arty films and steamy novels. I reply it endlessly—the replay fulfils and sustains me.
~ David Russell
There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.
~ David Williamson
John's coffee, which tasted like battery acid someone had pissed in then cursed at for several hours.
~ David Wong
I was about to warn the girl about John's coffee, which tasted like a cup of battery acid someone had pissed in and then cursed at for several hours,
~ David Wong
A brief and hellish marriage followed by a period of Bacchanalian overindulgence had soured him on romance, although I regularly recommended to him a restorative bout of coitus, preferably with a strapping dairymaid—a course he had yet to embrace.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Bitterness leads to brokenness in spirit.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
You see, at young age I had known how bitter taste like and it all started with a cup of brewed coffee.
~ Ymatruz, The Coffee Cries Foul
Many men are broken in spirit because of bitterness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not let the transient bitterness of the journey steal happiness from your life.
~ Debasish Mridha
Anger dulls the sharpness of mind, hardens the softness of feelings, and replaces the sweetness of the world with bitterness.
~ Debasish Mridha
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~ Carrie Fisher
Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.
~ Cassandra Clare
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
~ Washington Irving
I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.
~ Dolores Hitchens
Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.
~ John Dean
Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen
~ Martin Luther
To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.
~ Friedrich Schiller
There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.
~ Brandon Sanderson
He did not joke, as the newspapers dared report, for sarcasm is bitter and conceals ferments of despair.
~ Jean Genet
The bitterness of wearing your enemies' cast-off clothes eats into your soul. If I wore silk stockings for the rest of my life, I don't believe I could obliterate the scar.
~ Jean Webster
After that, we weren't the same anymore. We'd become men. Disillusioned and cynical. Slightly bitter too. We had nothing. We hadn't even learned a trade. No future. Nothing but life. But life without a future is worse than no life at all.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo